1 Adormeceu Josafá com seus pais, e foi sepultado com eles na cidade de Davi. Em seu lugar reinou seu filho Jorão.
2 Este teve por irmãos os filhos de Josafá: Azarias, Jeiel, Zacarias, Azarias, Micael e Sefatias, todos foram filhos de Josafá, rei de Israel.
3 Seu pai deu-lhes grandes dádivas em prata, ouro e coisas preciosas juntamente com cidades fortificadas em Judá; mas entregou o reino a Jorão, por ser o primogênito.
4 Tendo Jorão se levantado sobre o reino de seu pai e tendo-se fortificado, matou todos os seus irmãos à espada, como também alguns dos príncipes de Israel.
5 Jorão tinha trinta e dois anos quando começou a reinar, e reinou oito anos em Jerusalém.
6 Andou nos caminhos dos reis de Israel, como fez a casa de Acabe, porque tinha a filha de Acabe por mulher. Ele fez o mal à vista de Jeová.
7 Contudo Jeová não quis destruir a casa de Davi, por causa da aliança que havia feito com Davi, e porque tinha prometido que lhe daria uma lâmpada a ele e aos seus filhos para sempre.
8 Nos dias de Jorão rebelou-se Edom para não ser sujeito a Judá e constituíram para si rei.
9 Então Jorão marchou com todos os seus capitães e com todos os seus carros; levantou-se de noite, e desbaratou os edomitas, que o cercaram a ele e aos comandantes dos carros.
10 Assim se rebelou Edom contra Judá até o dia de hoje. Nesse tempo também rebelou-se Libna contra ele, porque tinha abominado a Jeová, Deus de seus pais.
11 Além disto fez altos nos montes de Judá, induziu os habitantes de Jerusalém à idolatria, e fez desgarrar a Judá.
12 Então lhe chegou às mãos uma carta do profeta Elias, em que estava escrito: Assim diz Jeová, Deus de teu pai Davi: Porque não andaste nos caminhos de teu pai Josafá, nem nos caminhos de Asa, rei de Judá;
13 mas andaste nos caminhos dos reis de Israel, e fizeste cair na idolatria a Judá e aos habitantes de Jerusalém, assim como caiu na idolatria a casa de Acabe; e de mais a mais mataste teus irmãos da casa de teu pai, os quais eram melhores do que tu:
14 eis que Jeová ferirá com grande flagelo o teu povo, teus filhos, tuas mulheres e toda a tua fazenda:
15 e tu terás uma grande enfermidade nas tuas entranhas, até que elas saiam de dia em dia por força do mal.
16 Suscitou Jeová contra Jorão o espírito dos filisteus, e dos árabes que confinam com os etíopes.
17 Subiram contra Judá, deram sobre ele e levaram toda a fazenda que se achou na casa do rei, como também seus filhos e suas mulheres; de sorte que não lhe ficou filho algum, senão Joacaz, o mais moço deles.
18 Depois de tudo isto o feriu Jeová com uma doença incurável nas entranhas.
19 No decorrer do tempo, no fim de dois anos, saíram-lhe as entranhas por causa da sua enfermidade e morreu de graves moléstias. O seu povo não lhe fez uma queima de perfumes, como se fez aos seus maiores.
20 Tinha Jorão trinta e dois anos quando começou a reinar, e reinou oito anos em Jerusalém. Morreu sem deixar de si saudades; e sepultaram-no na cidade de Davi, porém não nos sepulcros dos reis.
1 And Jehoshaphat went to rest with his fathers, and his body was put into the earth in the town of David. And Jehoram his son became king in his place.
2 And he had brothers, sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, Azariah, Michael, and Shephatiah; all these were sons of Jehoshaphat, king of Israel.
3 And their father gave them much silver and gold and things of great value, as well as walled towns in Judah; but the kingdom he gave to Jehoram, because he was the oldest.
4 Now when Jehoram had taken his place over his father's kingdom, and had made his position safe, he put all his brothers to death with the sword, as well as some of the princes of Israel.
5 Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for eight years.
6 He went in the ways of the kings of Israel, and did as the family of Ahab did, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife; and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord.
7 But it was not the Lord's purpose to send destruction on the family of David, because of the agreement he had made with David, when he said he would give to him and to his sons a light for ever.
8 In his time Edom made themselves free from the rule of Judah, and took a king for themselves.
9 Then Jehoram went over with his captains and all his war-carriages ... made an attack by night on the Edomites, whose forces were all round him ... on the captains of the war-carriages.
10 So Edom made themselves free from the rule of Judah, to this day: and at the same time Libnah made itself free from his rule; because he was turned away from the Lord, the God of his fathers.
11 And more than this, he made high places in the mountains of Judah, teaching the people of Jerusalem to go after false gods, and guiding Judah away from the true way.
12 And a letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, The Lord, the God of your father David, says, Because you have not kept to the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or the ways of Asa, king of Judah,
13 But have gone in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the people of Jerusalem go after false gods, as the family of Ahab did: and because you have put to death your father's sons, your brothers, who were better than yourself:
14 Now, truly, the Lord will send a great destruction on your people and your children and your wives and everything which is yours:
15 And you yourself will undergo the cruel pains of a disease in your stomach, so that day by day your inside will be falling out because of the disease.
16 Then the Philistines and the Arabians, who are by Ethiopia, were moved by the Lord to make war on Jehoram;
17 And they came up against Judah, forcing a way into it, and took away all the goods in the king's house, as well as his sons and his wives; so that he had no son but only Jehoahaz, the youngest.
18 And after all this the Lord sent on him a disease of the stomach from which it was impossible for him to be made well.
19 And time went on, and after two years, his inside falling out because of the disease, he came to his death in cruel pain. And his people made no burning for him like the burning made for his fathers.
20 He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for eight years: and at his death he was not regretted; they put his body into the earth in the town of David, but not in the resting-place of the kings.